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MAGAs constantly complain about being crushed by "Cancel Culture." [1]
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Date: 2023-11-27
They won't admit it but the Right tries to do the same thing by penalizing anyone they think is too "woke." They tried to get Gen Milley fired because he said he wanted to understand Marxism and White Supremacy -- even if he disagreed with it -- and that he supported the concepts of Critical Race Theory and having an open and diverse military.
"How dare he?"
They tried to cancel any media project that has a female protagonist that dares to criticize or ridicule the ruling matriarchy - like Bree Larson in Captain Marvel and The Marvels, Senequa Martin-Green and Michelle Yeoh in Star Trek: Discovery, or Margot Robbie in Barbie.
Obviously, saying that the matriarchy is bad - is a bridge too far.
In fact, this outrage has healthily supported a huge assortment of toxic mansplaining men's rights content creators who go on and on about what’s wrong with Feminism and the Whamins.
To be honest, I think people such as this deserve to be canceled, but that’s up to the marketplace of ideas to determine.
Those are decisions made by the public and by corporations, but It's only those on the Right, who are trying to use government to take the ability to choose and freedom away from people. They support the government banning books if they deign to admit that LGBTQ people even exist, if they tell the accurate story of Native, Latino and Black America, Genocide, Slavery and ongoing Racism, or if they criticize Corporate power and dominance with "dangerous" ideas such as collective effort, social or climate justice.
They're reporting School Librarians to Law Enforcement because a 17-year-old girl checked out a book.
Two right-wing Moms for Liberty members have been reporting Florida school librarians to law enforcement for distributing books they consider to be "pornography." Jennifer Tapley, a member of the Santa Rosa County chapter of the right-wing group and a candidate for the local school board, called the sheriff's office Oct. 25 to report something "really disgusting" she had seen while scrolling through Facebook, and she later gave an interview to deputies with Tom Gurski, another member of the group, reported Popular Information. [...] Gurski told investigators that a 17-year-old girl had checked out the popular young adult novel, Storm and Fury, by Jennifer L. Armentrout, which he described as pornographic. They ultimately were unable to persuade the sheriff's office to open an investigation, but Gurski says he convinced the Milton police department to initiate an investigation into his report on another young adult novel, Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List, by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, and officers then referred the complaint to the state attorney's office for review.
Storm and Fury is part of a series and is listed on Amazon with 4.5 stars as being a “Fantasy Romance” and “Dark Fantasy” and is compared favorably with the Harry Potter series — it is not listed as being “pornographic” or X-rated. These people have had Pulitzer Prize-winning novels such as To Kill a Mocking Bird, Beloved, Animal Farm and The Color Purple pulled from Schools and Public Libraries.
People like this think the idea of even discussing reparations for genocide, race riots, massacres, Redlining, Racial covenants, debt peonage, involuntary servitude, hate crimes, lynchings, police violence, bias in the criminal justice system and job, housing and loan discrimination are simply a laughable joke. “Get A Job” they say.
On Sunday, Newsmax host Lidia Curanaj asked McCaughey about Rep. Jamaal Bowman's (D-NY) call for greater dialog on reparations. "I mean, all they care about is giving away our money," Curanaj scoffed. "It was a long time ago," McCaughey agreed. "We're sorry if you're still worried about it. Go get a job." "Leave our money alone," Curanaj added. "We've got a lot of job openings in America," McCaughey concluded.
They support the government implementing a whitewashed curriculum of indoctrination into jingoist nationalism for our schools, romanticizing our Founding Father's ideals while ignoring how often we've failed to live up to them both in the past and the present.
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